The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Chapter 558

It is said that Liu Er brought up a stone rabbit from the bottom of the lake, Jia Xu was afraid that the mechanism would be alarmed, so he jumped several times in fright; Liu Er and Fennel couldn't help laughing.Jia Xu scolded: "Reckless! Didn't you tell you not to act rashly? What if there is an agency?"

Liu Er smiled and said: "This thing is too light, I just raised my hand and took it off. If there is a mechanism, how can there be no iron lock or something involved?" Nai walked up.

Jia Xu frowned and said, "The place where the Tian family hides important items has no guards or agencies, how can such a thing happen."

Liu Erdao: "Bao Buqi used to have guards?"

Jia Xu shook his head: "There are guards in the imperial mausoleum, obviously there are no guards here, otherwise how can we allow that fake Zhen Zangzhu to dig a hole for several days? It's so weird." While speaking, Liu Er had already held the stone rabbit over.Jia Xu took a closer look and saw that there were a lot of aquatic plants growing on it, so he picked up a few of them casually.Looking at the lake again, he said, "Let's leave here first. What if the agency is warning the soldiers from the secret?"

Liu Erdao: "It really doesn't look like there is an organization to me."

Jia Xu said: "What do you know? Otherwise, why didn't you set up a mechanism when you did this? Did the late emperor have no money to do it or couldn't do it?"

Liu Erdao: "Your Excellency is embarrassing for me, how could I guess."

Jia Xu turned his head to look at Fennel.Fennel pondered for a moment and asked, "Could it be there in the first place?"

"Ok?"

Fennel said: "I was thinking, maybe there should be a mechanism here, but my grandfather secretly hid it elsewhere."

"where?"

Fennel shook her head: "I don't know. I heard from Mr. Jia that when our family was in trouble, the late emperor sent many experts, and asked them to wear soft armor and watch out for hidden weapons. Obviously, they mistakenly thought that our family had a very powerful mechanism." .”

Jia Xu heard the words and thought for a while: "That's right. The late emperor thought that your family had an agency and sent so many people there. Zhen Deren was just a carpenter and not rich. After he returned to Jinling, it took seven or eight years for your Zhen family to be killed. The late emperor must have sent many fine works to your house, and he would definitely order the officials of Yingtian Mansion to keep an eye on them. Even if Zhen Deren knew what to do with the mechanism, it would be difficult for him to do so. If so, the late emperor still sent dozens of high-ranking experts in the past." He said Nodded, "It is indeed possible. Zhen Deren smuggled the institution prepared by the Tian family to other places, leaving the place empty and unguarded. The institution and the like are too mysterious, even if the late emperor had doubts, he would not dare to act rashly." The experiment may be ruined overnight."

Liu Erdao: "That's not right. Stealing oneself is a serious crime. Regardless of whether it's true or not, the late emperor should have sent someone to arrest Mr. Zhen. Can you still send him back to his hometown as an official?"

Jia Xu thought for a long time again: "I can't guess the reason. That's all." He lifted the stone rabbit, "First check if there is anything strange about this thing." He held it in his hand and looked carefully for a long time, but found no clues. Come.Then he handed it to Fenix, "Look, it's your Zhen family who made the guarantee."

Fennel is a woman with little strength.Seeing that the stone rabbit seemed to be quite heavy, I stretched out my hands to pick it up.Nai thought for a moment and said, "My lord, this must be hollow."

Jia Xu hurriedly asked, "Have you found the agency?"

"Not yet." Fen Xiang said, "It's just that this stone rabbit is too light. The two adults are martial arts practitioners, so they are stronger, so I'm afraid it won't be easy to detect. I dare to conclude that a stone of this size is much heavier than this stone rabbit." go."

Jia Xu said, "Then quickly find the agency!"

Fennel said: "I don't know how to look at the mechanism."

"Aren't you Zhen Deren's granddaughter? You are always talented, hurry up and see!"

Fennel had no choice but to examine the stone rabbit carefully for half a day.She thought, since this thing stored the most important things of the Tian family, there must not be any poisonous water hidden weapons in it, and it might accidentally injure the high officials and lords who opened it, or even the emperor.Liu Er said from the side: "I don't know if there is a hint on Mr. Zhen's painting." Jia Xu then handed the painting to Hui Xiang.

Fennel took a closer look at the rabbits in the painting, one was sitting on a rock and the other was lying on the lakeside, the lying one had a somewhat similar look to the stone rabbit.Liu Er also saw it, and said beside him.Jia Xu said: "That one must be useful, otherwise why would he bother to draw two?"

Fennel said casually: "Not necessarily, the one sitting higher and more conspicuous, maybe it's a cover, just like my uncle, the dead Zhen Zhen Zangzhu."

Jia Xu thought for a while: "There is some truth to it." Hui Xiang thought, although this Mr. Liu is somewhat conceited, fortunately he is willing to listen to advice and is not a stubborn person.

Nai looked closely at the lying rabbit in the painting, and saw a grass stuck in the right ear of the rabbit on the inside.Looking at the stone rabbit again, water plants grew on both ears.She was careful, put the stone rabbit on a big rock and slowly removed the water plants in the rabbit's ears, and found a very small hole.She pulled out the hairpin on her head to remove the stuffed sand in the small hole.Jia Xu said: "Your hairpin is too thick." After saying this, he took out a box of silver needles from his pocket, which seemed to be used by a doctor.It is still too thick to compare with silver needles.Fennel untied a purse tied around her waist, and took out the long needle used for daily shoe soles from it.Jia Xu couldn't help complaining in a low voice, "Zhen Deren is a man, the things he makes are so small." Fennel secretly bent the corners of his mouth, carefully removing the sand from the stone rabbit's ears.

She poked the needle in little by little, and slowly picked out fine mud spots.After picking for half a day, the long needle had gone half way in, and suddenly heard a "click", Fenix's hand couldn't help trembling, and she didn't dare to move.Liu Er hurried forward: "Go back." Fen Xiang didn't even dare to hold a long needle, and immediately hid behind - she was just an ordinary woman.If there is any hidden weapon here, I will add to the chaos if I don't help.

Liu Er and Jia Xu looked around the stone rabbit for a long time, and Jia Xu pointed out: "There is a gap." Liu Er carefully took the upper half of the rabbit and gently pulled it - the stone rabbit was pulled into two pieces.The rabbit was really hollow, and when the front part was pulled away, a boxy box inside was revealed.Old camphor wood box.

There are obviously many small springs and other small mechanisms inside the stone rabbit, Jia Xu and others are not experts, and they can't understand it.Although soaked in water for many years, the inner box was actually dry.There are 36 names of Tiangang engraved on it, and there is a small hole next to each name.Jia Xu pointed out: "Could it be that this is what Tiangang's arrangement refers to? Do you want to prick these small holes with needles according to the order of Tiangang?" Then he turned his head to look at Fennel.

Can fennel not know?This must be the 36 numbers her grandfather told her to memorize firmly.It's just that she has been pretending to be stupid for so long, and it is inconvenient to say that she knows immediately, so she hesitated: "I don't know what Tiangang..."

Jia Xu handed the box to her, and pointed: "Here, here are the names of the 36 Tiangang stars. Tiankui, Tiangang, Tianji, Tianxian, Tianyong, Tianxiong..."

Fennel listened to him count the star names from the beginning, removed the long needle from the stone rabbit's ear, and turned the box around in his hand.Thinking back to the 36 numbers that my grandfather said back then, it was right with what Jia Xu said about the 36 Tiangangxing.She thought, the first number should correspond to Tiankui, the second to Tiangang, and the third to Tianji, and go in order.Then she picked up the silver needle, thinking that among the numbers her grandfather gave her, "one" ranked No. 12, which is Tianmanxing, so she first clicked the small hole on the box to indicate Tianmanxing.The needle tip pierced down, and it was clear that the object was touched on the hand.Fennel's breathing was stretched, and the second one ordered Tian Qiao Xing. After clicking on the 36 stars in order, there was a crisp "click", and the lid of the box popped up in two parts, standing upright, revealing the contents of the box.

Fennel dared not move, and looked at Jia Xu.Seeing that there was something wrapped in yellow satin inside, Jia Xu carefully picked it out.Slowly unfolding the yellow satin, Fenix ​​could clearly see the five-clawed golden dragon embroidered on the satin.Wrapped inside are two more pieces of satin, rolled into a small ball.Jia Xu unfolded one piece slowly, and when he saw the words on it clearly, his eyes widened immediately.Looking at another piece, he let out a long sigh.But pass it to fennel.

Fennel put down the box, took the satin and took a closer look. It read: My ninth son Pan, loyal, brave, benevolent, filial and fraternal, I miss him very much.I was specially ordered to guard the imperial tomb to accompany me.Looking at another piece, the back end is the same, but the front end becomes "My Third Son".They are all covered with jade seals, which are obviously two imperial edicts.

Jia Xudao: "The ninth son of the late emperor was Situ Pan, the King of Yan, and the third son was Situ Huan, the Supreme Emperor. The third son is mediocre, and if he succeeds him, he can be the Supreme Emperor with power for a few more years; the ninth son is clever and hard to do When the first emperor ordered Mr. Zhen Deren to make this thing, he hadn't decided whether the country would be given to the third or the ninth." He pointed to the two imperial decrees and said, "When the first emperor dies, no matter who sits As for that chair, the first thing to do is to take it out, destroy one piece, take the other piece and send the other side to Xiaoci County to guard the imperial mausoleum."

Liu Er sighed: "It's really a great contribution."

Jia Xu said: "If your grandfather made this thing, it's no wonder that the late emperor didn't dare to spare your Zhen family's life."

Fennel sneered and said, "No wonder Mr. Jia said that the Situ family's country was destroyed by the late Emperor."

Liu Erdao: "The world has been divided, no one can send King Yan or Emperor Taishang to guard the mausoleum, these two edicts are useless. I don't know who is looking for this thing."

Jia Xu looked at Fennel: "In your opinion, how should we deal with it?"

Fennel thought for a while, then smiled: "Put the box back into the stone rabbit with the lid on, and put the stone rabbit back into the water."

"What about the decree?"

Fennel said coldly: "It's burnt."

Jia Xu and Liu Er looked at each other with hesitation.After a long while, Liu Er said: "Miss Zhen has a very good idea. It's useless, it's better to burn it."

Jia Xu hesitated: "After all, it is the imperial decree of the first emperor. It is a pity to burn it."

"The first emperor has been dead for many years, and his imperial decree is no longer effective." Fen Xiang suddenly felt relieved, and her voice became a little louder, "I might cause trouble if I keep it."

Liu Er persuaded: "My lord, let's destroy it."

Jia Xu said, "It's good to keep fishing, but I don't know who those people are."

Liu Erdao: "People who are no more than King Yan to the left are people who are too high-ranking princes of other families, or people who don't know where to get the news and want to get credit for it. It's useless for us to hold it." Nai looked at Fennel.

Fen Xiang said: "What Master Liu said is true. This thing is useless, so burn it."

Jia Xu is still reluctant.Liu Erdao: "My lord, what are you going to do with this?" Jia Xu couldn't answer.Liu Er said again, "One more thing is worse than one less thing."

Jia Xu hesitated again for a long time, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "That's all! It's useless anyway, if you burn it, you'll burn it!"

Liu Er and Fen Xiang were standing and waiting, he hesitated for too long, they found two stones and sat down; hearing this, they both stood up immediately.Liu Er took out Lingnan matches from his bosom: "My lord, it's windy here, so it's not easy to burn." Pointing to a big maple tree not far away, "Go and burn it there."

Jia Xu nodded, handed the two imperial edicts to Fenix, and sighed, "Your whole family died because of this, so come and burn it. It should be revenge for your family."

Tears welled up in Fenix's eyes, she took the imperial decree with her right hand, and squeezed it hard.Liu Er handed the match to her.Fen Xiang walked slowly to the bottom of the big maple tree step by step, thinking of her ups and downs in the past [-] years, the fear and anger of being murdered, tears rolled down.Nai squatted with his back to the wind, blocked the wind with his body, threw the two pieces of imperial decree on the ground, lightly took out the match and lit it, and twisted another piece of imperial decree.The silk and satin are on fire and burn immediately.Fennel is very good at burning things, and with a few finger movements with the flames, the two imperial edicts that can disrupt the community gradually turn into ashes.After staying for a while, she stood up and brushed off her skirt, and took two steps sideways.The wind has no cover, and gently lifts the ashes of the satin and blows them away.Fenix ​​stared blankly at the pile of ashes fading away, took a handkerchief to wipe away her tears, turned around and walked back to Jia Xu's side.

Jia Xu patted her on the shoulder and raised his head to signal Liu Er.According to what Fenxiang said, Liu Er opened the old camphor wood box and stuffed it back into the stone rabbit, and put the two pieces of the stone rabbit together.There was another "click", and the stone rabbit was still the same stone rabbit.Liu Er supported the stone rabbit with his right hand, turned around and went into the water, submerged in the lake in the blink of an eye.

Jia Xu asked softly, "Did you see anything in that box?"

Fen Xiang said: "On the corner of the piece of yellow satin wrapped outside, there are two characters embroidered with yellow silk, a monk."

Jia Xu nodded and said: "I guess this object was hidden in a monk's place at first, and it was transferred here later."

Fennel asked, "Who is the master monk?"

Jia Xu briefly talked about the origin of a monk.Liu Er came up halfway through the talk, and Jia Xu nodded to him and continued.Finally sighed: "The old monk is also unlucky."

After hearing this, Fen Xiang immediately said: "It sounds like the Great Monk and the late Emperor are a bit like the King of Yan and the Supreme Emperor. They all helped the brothers get down the country, and they were even jealous in the end."

Jia Xu's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands and said, "Subconsciousness!" Fenix ​​was surprised.Jia Xu explained, "Unspoken meaning is the idea that people are vaguely thinking about, but they are not aware of it. Just now I have been thinking about why the late emperor didn't abolish the Supreme Emperor before he died. Changing the King of Yan? The Supreme Emperor was originally the most mediocre and incompetent of the nine sons of the late emperor, and the King of Yan was stronger than him several times. The late emperor took the third son as the steward for more than ten years, and finally changed the capable ninth son to be the new king. Better? Which emperor doesn’t want the country to last forever? I just heard what you said, and suddenly thought, maybe this is the hidden meaning of the late emperor. King Yan is like a master monk, and Emperor Taishang is like himself. Even if his ability is low, he is still Looking forward to the benefits of an overlord similar to himself."

After hearing this, Fen Xiang nodded repeatedly: "That's the reason for the lack of security." Nai sneered and said, "Every day the emperor is said to be the real dragon emperor, and the emperors are all villains." Jia Xu laughed out loud.

Liu Er was still wet, so he took the clothes in his hands; the three of them crawled out of the mountain depression.On the way, Jia Xu quietly asked Liu Er: "Do you remember?"

Liu Erdao: "Remember."

"Tell Xiao Qi."